Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] for [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think he 'd been for about six month . |
| 2 | I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion . |
| 3 | No , it was Marguerite Bryant now and had been for over fifteen years . |
| 4 | Had been for about eighteen months . ’ |
| 5 | Although our prediction had been for around 100 validations , based on the transfer of old courses , we will actually be involved in closer to 320 validations . |